Magpie and Bittern Eggs Hand Colored Plate In this work

In this work

the animal expert and director of the Skansen Aquarium founded by him in 1978

The author was William Roscoe's daughter-in-law and was better known as a botanical artist under her maiden name Margaret Lace

lettered in black on the spine and front cover

Publisher E

Magpie and Bittern Eggs Hand Colored Plate In this workHand colored lithographic plate, approximately 10. 25 inches wide by 14 inches long. From: Meyer, H. L., Illustrations of British Birds, lithographer H. L. Meyer. Image is taken from the Longman and Co. gilt edge folio edition of Meyer's Coloured Illustrations of British Birds and their Eggs which was published 1835 1841, see W. G. Hale. Image is of an magpie egg and bittern egg. Publisher Longman and Co. Publisher Place London Date Published 1835